Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 262 293
Rank change year-on-year -24 +31 -88
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 487 537 779
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.68% 1.17% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.26% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 206 310 467
10th Percentile £40,625 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -6.90%
75th Percentile £95,938 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £125,625 £94,000 £101,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -2.96% +7.44% -3.20%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 56,435 42,676 68,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.59% 93.36% 87.81%
Number of salaries quoted 33,915 21,866 52,740
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £29,329
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,463 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 5 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -27 441 £75,000 +11.11% 256
London +60 250 £95,000 +26.67% 109
Work from Home +10 188 £75,000 +15.38% 141
UK excluding London -87 186 £63,076 -2.96% 172
North of England -30 52 £75,000 +3.45% 43
South East -64 50 £57,500 -11.54% 49
Midlands -36 35 £63,076 -4.79% 20
North West -18 32 £77,500 +1.64% 26
West Midlands -11 26 £60,288 -7.25% 11
East of England +22 21 £60,100 -7.54% 26
Yorkshire -28 17 £68,538 +82.77% 14
South West -45 16 £62,500 +4.17% 23
Northern Ireland -22 11 £75,000 +26.20% 1
East Midlands -44 9 £80,000 +18.52% 9
Wales -8 4 £61,001 +2.64% 3
North East -20 3 £63,076 -23.54% 4
Scotland -21 3 £42,000 -29.33% 14

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (3.29%) Confluence
2 12 (2.46%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.62%) CMS
5 2 (0.41%) CICS
5 2 (0.41%) MTS
6 1 (0.21%) Drupal
Applications
1 19 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.62%) Trello
6 2 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (3.08%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (1.03%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.62%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.21%) Magento
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.21%) Shopify
4 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 62 (12.73%) SaaS
2 52 (10.68%) AWS
3 45 (9.24%) Azure
4 24 (4.93%) Power Platform
5 19 (3.90%) Pulumi
6 15 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (2.87%) GitHub
8 11 (2.26%) GCP
9 10 (2.05%) GitHub Copilot
10 9 (1.85%) H2O.ai
10 9 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (1.85%) OneDrive
10 9 (1.85%) OpenShift
10 9 (1.85%) PaaS
11 5 (1.03%) Snowflake
12 4 (0.82%) Collibra
12 4 (0.82%) Google Analytics
12 4 (0.82%) Miro
13 3 (0.62%) Asana
13 3 (0.62%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.54%) Broadband
2 10 (2.05%) HTTP
3 9 (1.85%) SD-WAN
4 7 (1.44%) WAN
4 7 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (1.23%) LAN
5 6 (1.23%) RTP
6 4 (0.82%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.62%) Multicast
7 3 (0.62%) Wireless
8 2 (0.41%) 5G
8 2 (0.41%) ATM
8 2 (0.41%) VPN
9 1 (0.21%) 4G
9 1 (0.21%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.21%) Intranet
9 1 (0.21%) MPLS
9 1 (0.21%) Network Security
9 1 (0.21%) NGN
9 1 (0.21%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.93%) Relational Database
2 23 (4.72%) Power BI
3 21 (4.31%) NoSQL
4 20 (4.11%) RDBMS
5 17 (3.49%) Metadata
6 10 (2.05%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.44%) Tableau
8 6 (1.23%) SAP BW
8 6 (1.23%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.03%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.62%) Big Data
10 3 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.62%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.41%) DB2
12 1 (0.21%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (5.95%) JIRA
2 19 (3.90%) Jaeger
3 4 (0.82%) ERwin
4 3 (0.62%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.21%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
General
1 191 (39.22%) Finance
2 177 (36.34%) Social Skills
3 111 (22.79%) Marketing
4 94 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (10.88%) Banking
6 47 (9.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (9.03%) Retail
8 38 (7.80%) Legal
9 36 (7.39%) Financial Institution
10 35 (7.19%) Influencing Skills
11 31 (6.37%) Law
12 28 (5.75%) Presentation Skills
13 23 (4.72%) Public Sector
14 20 (4.11%) Manufacturing
15 19 (3.90%) Digital Economy
16 18 (3.70%) Back Office
17 17 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
18 10 (2.05%) Automotive
18 10 (2.05%) Billing
18 10 (2.05%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 138 (28.34%) Product Manager
2 70 (14.37%) Lead
3 60 (12.32%) Senior
4 35 (7.19%) Senior Manager
5 31 (6.37%) Product Owner
6 28 (5.75%) Senior Product Manager
7 22 (4.52%) Product Lead
8 19 (3.90%) Digital Product Manager
8 19 (3.90%) Product Management Director
9 16 (3.29%) Change Manager
10 13 (2.67%) Developer
11 12 (2.46%) Data Manager
12 11 (2.26%) Development Engineer
13 10 (2.05%) Security Engineer
13 10 (2.05%) Senior Development Engineer
13 10 (2.05%) Senior Software Development Engineer
13 10 (2.05%) Senior Software Engineer
13 10 (2.05%) Software Development Engineer
13 10 (2.05%) Software Engineer
14 9 (1.85%) Sales Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
1 19 (3.90%) OpenTelemetry
2 13 (2.67%) REST
3 9 (1.85%) Keras
3 9 (1.85%) PyTorch
3 9 (1.85%) TensorFlow
3 9 (1.85%) YAML
4 6 (1.23%) .NET
5 3 (0.62%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (0.41%) EDI
6 2 (0.41%) Next.js
7 1 (0.21%) CSS
7 1 (0.21%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.21%) HTML
7 1 (0.21%) Node.js
7 1 (0.21%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.21%) PySpark
7 1 (0.21%) RESTful
7 1 (0.21%) SOAP
7 1 (0.21%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 91 (18.69%) Product Ownership
2 45 (9.24%) Onboarding
3 41 (8.42%) Self-Motivation
4 27 (5.54%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.46%) Social Media
6 11 (2.26%) Cloud Native
7 10 (2.05%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (2.05%) Public Cloud
8 9 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (1.85%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.44%) Data Fabric
9 7 (1.44%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.23%) IoT
10 6 (1.23%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (1.03%) Driving Licence
12 4 (0.82%) EPoS
12 4 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.52%) Linux
2 19 (3.90%) Unix
3 5 (1.03%) Windows
4 2 (0.41%) zOS
5 1 (0.21%) Android
5 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (52.57%) Roadmaps
2 199 (40.86%) Agile
3 141 (28.95%) Product Roadmap
4 116 (23.82%) Product Strategy
5 108 (22.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 104 (21.36%) Stakeholder Management
7 94 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
8 90 (18.48%) Mentoring
9 86 (17.66%) AI
10 79 (16.22%) Analytics
11 73 (14.99%) Information Security
11 73 (14.99%) Product Vision
12 72 (14.78%) User Experience
13 62 (12.73%) Coaching
13 62 (12.73%) Decision-Making
14 60 (12.32%) Project Management
15 59 (12.11%) Business Development
16 53 (10.88%) B2B
17 50 (10.27%) Value Proposition
18 46 (9.45%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 46 (9.45%) Python
2 32 (6.57%) Java
2 32 (6.57%) SQL
3 22 (4.52%) JavaScript
4 20 (4.11%) Go
5 19 (3.90%) Bash
6 9 (1.85%) PowerShell
7 4 (0.82%) C#
8 2 (0.41%) COBOL
8 2 (0.41%) JCL
8 2 (0.41%) PHP
8 2 (0.41%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.21%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.21%) R
9 1 (0.21%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 88 (18.07%) Degree
2 41 (8.42%) Master's Degree
3 31 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (5.34%) Security Cleared
5 20 (4.11%) AWS Certification
6 16 (3.29%) SC Cleared
7 8 (1.64%) MBA
8 7 (1.44%) DBS Check
8 7 (1.44%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.44%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.44%) PMP
9 4 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.82%) SAP Certification
10 3 (0.62%) CSPO
10 3 (0.62%) HNC
11 2 (0.41%) CISM
11 2 (0.41%) CISSP
12 1 (0.21%) CRISC
12 1 (0.21%) PhD
12 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.93%) QA
2 16 (3.29%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.26%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.05%) NCSC
5 10 (2.05%) NIST
6 6 (1.23%) GDPR
6 6 (1.23%) ISO 20022
7 5 (1.03%) IFRS
7 5 (1.03%) SLA
8 4 (0.82%) PMO
9 3 (0.62%) ISO 8583
9 3 (0.62%) SEPA
10 2 (0.41%) COREP
10 2 (0.41%) FINREP
10 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.21%) GRC
11 1 (0.21%) PSD2
11 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (4.31%) Docker
2 2 (0.41%) RACF
3 1 (0.21%) Firmware
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (4.31%) Kubernetes
2 20 (4.11%) Terraform
3 19 (3.90%) Ansible
3 19 (3.90%) Argo
3 19 (3.90%) Kustomize
3 19 (3.90%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 49 (10.06%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.78%) Google
3 15 (3.08%) Salesforce
4 11 (2.26%) Databricks
5 9 (1.85%) Adobe
5 9 (1.85%) Dell
5 9 (1.85%) NVIDIA
6 8 (1.64%) Oracle
6 8 (1.64%) SAP
7 7 (1.44%) Foundry
8 4 (0.82%) Sage
8 4 (0.82%) YouTube
8 4 (0.82%) Zoho
9 3 (0.62%) Apple
9 3 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.62%) ION Trading
9 3 (0.62%) Patsystems
9 3 (0.62%) Reuters
9 3 (0.62%) Tenable
9 3 (0.62%) Trayport